Location: Kingston Road, east of Sharpe Street
Date photo taken: 9 September 2013
Image 13 in the Mural Series
This picture represents about half of the mural that appears on the west side of the building at 2384 Kingston Road. Painted in 1992 by Risto Turunen, it shows Elizabeth Graves Simcoe in a small boat, viewing the Scarborough Bluffs, or the highlands of Toronto as they were then known. As the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, she took the opportunity to explore much of Upper and Lower Canada. With a keen eye she documented what she saw, creating hundreds of watercolours and keeping a diary, which has since been published. To learn more about this remarkable woman, visit Travels with Elizabeth Simcoe, an online exhibit by the Archives of Ontario.
This mural was painted as part of the Heritage Trail project which saw 12 murals relating to Scarborough history painted along Kingston Rd.
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